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Lynne Parenti

Lynne Parenti

Lynne Parenti is a research scientist and a curator of fishes at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She collects fishes throughout the tropics, most recently in Hawaii, for her research (Photo by Zeehan Jaafar)

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At the time of capture, the Smithsonian's coelacanth specimen weighed about 160 pounds and measured a little less than five and a half feet long.

How the Smithsonian’s Coelacanth Lost Its Brain and Got It Back Again

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the discovery of a fish believed to have gone the way of the dinosaurs 70 million years ago